Both Epidemic and Pandemic refers to the spread of infectious diseases among a population. The term pandemic indicates a far higher number of people affected in much larger geographical area than the epidemic. A mortality rate is a number of deaths per 1000 individuals per year. Genus epidemicus means that the treatment protocol of an epidemic disease is designed based on the collected signs and symptoms of a large group of patients in the same geographical area [click to tweet].

Homeopathy has been a boon to the patients of scarlet fever, typhus fever, yellow fever, Pneumonia, Cholera, Influenza, Hepatitis, Dengue, Leptospirosis and Conjunctivitis during the times of pandemics and epidemics.

Let deeds speak reality. Homeopathy has always served people in epidemics and pandemics crisis, in old times and modern times.

This is a time-tested medicine that has never received its past-due merit and acknowledgements. It’s fascinating that even with the existence of medical records, journals and clinical evidence in favour of homeopathy, it has always been bullied by bigots (popularly known as skeptics), who agrees that there is an evidence for homeopathy but it is not strong enough. So in case of an epidemic outbreak if homeopathy in doing “nothing” loses 14 patients a year and allopathy by doing “something” loses 20 patients a year in the same place and time-frame, then what causes the death of those extra 6 patients, and what is the “something”?!

EPIDEMICS AND PANDEMICS IN USA

In the year 1873, a statistical report was presented by Dr. E. Kellogg for New York, for Philadelphia by Dr. P. Dudley, and for Boston was compiled by E. Russell. The following table is a summary of their general statistics published in [1, page 401]

[2] In the year 1852, Dr. Routh, a British allopathic physician and an opponent of homeopathy, was a designated authority by medical officials of London to release the mortality-statistics (for all diseases). As a result of his findings, Dr. Routh was constrained to testify in favour of homeopathy. He collected statistics of different hospitals (England, Austria and Germany), the total of 32,655 homeopathic cases and 119,630 allopathic cases. The overall mortality under homeopathic treatment was 4.4 percent, and the overall mortality under allopathic treatment was 10.5 percent.

I also invite you to take a look at the following tables that demonstrates how effectively homeopathy has served humanity!

*During Hahnemann’s era, the extreme difficulties in treating cholera epidemic compelled the Russian medical community to send a letter to Dr. Hahnemann. The letter contained a detailed description of the symptoms of the disease, as well as a request to indicate appropriate remedies.

**Another event in that age, is from Sir William Wilde, the well-known allopathic doctor of Dublin, which in his work entitled “Austria and its Institutions”, wrote: “Upon comparing the report of the treatment of Cholera in the Homeopathic hospital testified to by two allopathic medical inspectors appointed by Government with that of the treatment of the same disease in the other hospitals of Vienna during the same period the epidemic of 1836, it appeared that while two-thirds of the cases treated by Dr. Fleischmann the physician of the Homeopathic hospital, recovered, two-thirds of those treated by the ordinary methods in the other hospitals died.”

***In 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, a physician in a Pittsburgh hospital in U.S. asked a nurse if she knew anything better than what he was doing because he was losing many cases. “Yes Doctor, stop aspirin and go down to a Homeopathic pharmacy, and get homeopathic remedies.” The Doctor replied: “but that is homeopathy.” “I know it, but the homeopathic doctors for whom I have nursed have not lost a single case.” [3]

EPIDEMICS IN CUBA BETWEEN 2004 AND 2010

From Spanish Flu of 1918, let us forward the time to 2010, the release of several outstanding reports in epidemiologic surveillance studies conducted by the Finlay Institute, a vaccines producer in Cuba. According to Finlay Institute, between December 2009 and January 2010, about 9,074439 individuals, near 90% of Cuban population received homeopathic preventive medicine (Homeoprophylaxis) for respiratory diseases, influenza (including AH1N1) with remarkable outcomes and a great reduction rate in mortality. Homeopathic interventions were also employed in other diseases in Cuba such as Hepatitis A (population 1400000, year 2004-2007), Dengue (population 150000, year 2006-2009), Leptospirosis [4] (population 2300000, year 2007-2008), Conjunctivitis (population 180000, year 2008-2009) with undeniable successful results, thanks to homeopathy!

37 Comments

Iman Navab

January 23, 2013

Here are two examples with a warning statement:
1) Cholera symptoms are quite similar to those of acute Arsenic poisoning. It is almost an identical clinical picture as in Cholera. Thus from the homeopathic point of view Arsenicum in homeopathic format seems to be the right remedy to use in treating Cholera symptoms. 2) In Cuban Homeoprophylactic intervention, by Finlay Institute, homeopathic Nosodes from circulating viral strains were mostly used. ***Warning: the use of homeopathic medicines in Epidemic and Pandemic situations must only be considered and provided by authorized and expert homeopathic medical officials.

Thank you for collating the facts about the efficacy of homeopathy during epidemics. Although bits of this information have been available in informed circles, it is very useful to have them all in one place.

Dear Iman ~ This will be a great chart to refer people when they want to know the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies in comparison with allopathy when we talk about epidemic disease. At the present time, we will discuss influenza on an annual basis, if not year-round. What allopaths do not understand when dealing with viral elements that can mutate quicker than you can blink an eye, regards the stability and constancy of homeopathic energy medicine to hold true, even through foreign invading forces that attempt to use humans as hosts. Inevitably, the medical system will have to turn around along with the socio-economic-political system. Our inner and outer environments will force us to take a closer look at homeopathy. Blessings, Debby

DFMcC

Iman Navab

January 24, 2013

@DFMcC, read the last section of the article about the current statistics in 2010. But investigate it for yourself, that’s better if *you* dig out the truth. Also note that due to bigots and bullying in medicine, homeopathy has little chance now to be a primary medicine for treating epidemics. To collect current data and statistics in large numbers will require government’s health officials involvement, and for obvious political reasons, they do not want to recognize and to understand homeopathy, …certainly you can not acknowledge what you don’t understand.

MBL

February 25, 2013

DFMcC….I think this is a stupid question! The whole idea is that there are all these statistics. Who cares from when. In answer to why not from now?….Probably because there is not enough history of now. More recent stats will come I am sure, but how about we wait for ‘now’ or ‘present’ to be ‘past’ first 🙂 Also, by using history from this long ago proves how wonderful Homeopathy worked all those years ago and also proves that Allopathy’s success rate isn’t all it’s chalked up to be.

Armando J. Benavides

July 5, 2016

Because then we would have to open a third window of casualties due to the use of drugs! I mean look at the facts, at least an instance in the data, there were more fatalities using the drugs than without treatment at all!

Use the search engine of your choice to find articles about the recent Swiss Government review of the evidence for homoeopathy. They concluded that it provides safe, effective and inexpensive treatment for many conditions and that it should be funded as part of their national health service.

Etienne

January 28, 2013

I very nice to see what pretends to be extensive stats from 19th and early 20th centuries, but why aren’t you showing a decent, unbiased, state of the art analysis of the recent cuban experience? That kind of study, if conclusive, would surely be acepted in a major public health journal. Besides, supporting such statement with references dated 1873-1853-1921-1900 and 2010 sounds strange, isn’t there a stronger basis for your statements (ie more recent papers)?

Go read the text by Brachio, it is very clear! [4] Application of 200C potency of bacteria for Leptospirosis epidemic control (2010) FULL TEXT
This is conclusive! On more than 2 million people! Then again, on 8 million!

Patrick

March 31, 2013

Thank you for writing such a comprehensive and conclusive report on the fantastic effects of homeopathy on epidemic diseases. It would be great to also know whether or not the case for homeopathy is so strong in a more recent period, after the discoveries of antibiotics, vaccinations, aseptic technique, Germ Theory of disease and pain killers. Thought not.